Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 14:35:37 -0800 (PST) From: Marc Slemko <marcs@znep.com> To: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au> Cc: Will Andrews <will@physics.purdue.edu>, Peter Pentchev <roam@orbitel.bg>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: no newgroup/newgrp in FreeBSD? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.20.0101161429420.6880-100000@alive.znep.com> In-Reply-To: <200101162210.f0GMAFs17644@mobile.wemm.org>
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On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, Peter Wemm wrote: > This functionality does not have any place in FreeBSD as "all groups in > the groups vector are equal". We could simply provide a non-setuid wrapper > for running a new command with no changes... That would be compliant with > the interface.. newgrp is also of use when your group membership in /etc/groups has been changed after you logged in and were setup with the appropriate group list. You login, are not a member of group freeporn, then someone adds you to group freeporn, and "newgrp freeporn" will let you get free porn without logging in again, etc. No? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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